thewthrman

You know, I travel a great deal for work and am starting to fear the erosion of rights with regard to personal property. I haven't been unlucky enough to be pulled out of line at the airport for the random search yet, but I know that day will suck. I sometimes have a couple laptops in my bag and a spare HDD and cables and non-threatening tools, etc. The guy at the table is gonna drag all my crap out and then, while the overhead bins on the plane fill up with all the other frequent flyers' oversized pull-behinds, I'm gonna have to repack it. I have to check at least one bag now for my various now-illegal-to-carry-on-board tools (which include such things as screw drivers) and my new mag mount antenna.

I guess I am just thinking that at some point in time this 9/11 stuff will fade from memory, but law enforcement will continue to exercise their new powers to hassle people for whatever they choose. Not cool.

BTW, I was doing a little tooling around showing my geek-brother the whole stumbling deal and aroused the suspicion of a local city policeman in his cruiser. Luckily, he was in an apartment complex parking lot and I was in an adjacent shopping center lot that was seperated by some landscaping, so I was able to get some distance in between us before I had to answer his "Would you mind stepping out of the vehicle?" with my prepared response, "Yes, I would."